Dovecot, Glamis Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Glamis Castle
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bracket-claret
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NO 384 472
- Coordinates
- 56.61337, -3.00513
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Glamis Castle is an earlier 17th century structure that was repaired in 1976. It is a double chamber, rectangular-plan, lectern dovecot made of roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble quoins, and some dressed stone. It features a part base course, a stepped alighting ledge or rat course, and crowstepped flanks with moulded skewputts. The back parapet is raised to form a gable, and the roof is covered with Angus stone slates.
On the southwest elevation, there are two low doorways at the center, each with a common dripstone and boarded timber doors. Above these, two small timber dormers contain flightholes and have a crowstepped gable behind them.
Inside, the dovecot contains 750 nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecot, Glamis Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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